I've been putting together a list of folks I think might be cool to interview on LAS. I'd be interested in your thoughts on this list, plus additional ideas for people to interview. Again, this is just off the top of my head, I haven't reached out to anyone just yet.

Chis is also putting together a list I believe, so between the two of us...we should have some cool interviews lined up here soon.

Thanks,
Matt

The list:

Jonathan Thomas (OpenShot)

Bill Reynolds (PCLinuxOS)

Patrick Balleux (WebcamStudio)

John Graham-Cumming (POPfile - Used for Bayesian filtering, but it can also be used for even more advanced email sorting based on probability and learning)

Chris DiBona (Google Code) (I've interviewed him once for IT Conversations before Google, circa 2004)

I second this. I would love to see one of the lead developers from Arch. Aaron Griffin is "phrakture" on reddit. He is a mod on the /r/archlinux subreddit as well. Or Allan McRae would be another great Arch interview...

Pretty much any of the Lead Developers on any of the distros which are not spins of something. (i.e. Ubuntu but not Mint)

Another suggestion would be to announce the Interview ahead of time, and have a sort of AmA type deal going on somewhat the way Reddit did when RMS did his interview for them. Just pick the Top 10 most upvoted questions or something.

I know these are some big names but Eric Raymond would have some really really interesting things to say about FOSS.. and if we could ever have Linus on that would be amazing and it can't hurt to ask. :D

Someone you should try to get on your show, but I know she is a busy lady is Karen Sandler who no only, given your recent confusion over Gnome's direction, is the Executive Director of the Gnome Foundation and so perfect to talk to, but also a former legal counsel at the SFLC and so is not only very clued up on the Free Software ideals but is able to talk about them more humanely than RMS (weird for a lawyer ;) )

On top of that she also does a Bi-weekly OggCast called Free as in Freedom which is unique in the way it discusses what goes on in the Free Software movement as well as has it own guests from the Free Software World.

Like I say I am sure she is a busy lady, but given how you ragged on Gnome, feel it is only fair for her to have a right to reply.

How cool would that be to have her and counsel from someone like Microsoft on the show for a cross-fire discussion of the merits of proprietary vs FOSS?

Also, I've seen some resistance to GPL3 out there. It would be interesting to have someone like her come on the show to explain to us in plain terms the primary differences between the major cookie-cutter free licenses (Apache, GPL2, GPL3, Simplified BSD...), the pros and cons of each, and give an example of a business case in which each might be most appropriate. Perhaps that's a discussion for coder-radio, but it would be interesting.

I'd personally love to see Bryan Lunduke interviewed. I know we've come to know him over his years with LAS but I'm talking about the stuff we don't know much about: his company, his business models, how he decides what software to make, that sort of stuff.

Perhaps someone from Red Hat. preferably a technical person rather than a spokesman or business person. Also, someone from Gnome could be good, especially after last week, they could provide a good discussion.

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